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*** Reporters without Borders lists the 13 "enemies of the Internet:"
Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Myanmar, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.
*** The Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan slams the Western media:
U.S. media coverage of Iraq was so gloomy that during a recent visit to the U.S. the prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan wondered whether the situation had deteriorated to such a degree during his absence that he should stay away.
"CNN International and [Arabic television network] al-Jazeera are equally bad in their coverage of the situation in Iraq," Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was quoted as telling a visiting group of Americans on Monday.
"When I was in the United States recently and read the negative news in the Washington Post, New York Times and in the network TV broadcasts, I even wondered if things had gotten so bad since I had left that I shouldn't return," he said.
*** Bruce Kesler has more criticism and analysis of the media's Iraq coverage:
Journalists are reviled by many for alleged negativism and over-focus on bad news in Iraq. Or perhaps the problem is: Their employers are just trying to do it on the cheap. Ironically, the same media that criticizes the U.S. for sending too few troops to stabilize Iraq send too few reporters to cover much more than the dramatic bombings around Baghdad.
"I hope we keep out of the post-Vietnam thing that the press lost the war," Joe Galloway, soon to retire military editor for Knight Ridder, recently told me in an interview. But discrepancies in what's reported, or an imbalance, are daily highlighted by military bloggers in Iraq and conservative commentators here at home.
If truth is journalism's goal, cheapness within journalism undermines it. Embedded reporter Paul McLeary wrote in Columbia Journalism Review not long ago, "In Iraq, the untold stories pile up, one by one by one," because "there just aren't enough of them [journalists] to give the conflict its due."
*** Meanwhile, Bill Roggio plans to help fill the gap.
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Reporters without borders should have had 14, they forgot the UN.
Posted by: Veeshir at November 7, 2006 09:42 AM
